Sunday, May 10, 2009

#63: Complete 5 DIY projects (wherein the author reminisces)

I totally stole this idea from one of my favourite new decor blogs, This Young House, and decided to make it my first DIY project. The idea actually came to me late at night a few weeks ago while I was staring at an already hanging picture frame and realizing it really needed to 'pepped up'. Once I remembered the scrapbooking paper I had stored in the back of a closet, the whole project came together.

I used keys from the various places that we've lived over the course of our relationship, and glued them to the scrapbooking paper. I inserted these pieces of scrapbook paper into the frames, and voila! instant nostalgi-art!

Isn't it super cute?



Saturday, May 9, 2009

#94: Go to a Red Sox game at Fenway (wherein the author takes up citizenship in the Red Sox Nation)

One of our closest friends, Yuna, came to visit us this past week on her way back from a trip to Washington. Her visit was truly fantastic, and while I wish I'd been able to take time off work to be able to show her sights, I know Nate did a fabulous job playing host.

Having friends and family come to visit is wonderful for so many reasons, but one of those is the excuse that it gives us to play tourist in our own city. Although Nate and Yuna probably walked the equivalent of several Boston marathons over the course of the week (including hiking up to the summit of Wachusett Mountain!), I luckily got to participate in a few of their outings. One of these was the highly anticipated Red Sox game on Thursday night.

Yuna is a massive baseball fan, and she was gracious enough to take time from watching the game to explain a few particularities of the team and the rules, making the whole experience even more fantastic. Fenway Park has such a sense of history and nostalgia to it, and even walking around in the hours preceding the game was a lot of fun. Boston is so good at creating a mood of excitement around its sports games, and just watching and listening to all of the busy action around us got us more than pumped for the amazing game to come. The night got off to a particularly good start with a dinner of sausage on a bun, eating while sitting on the curb outside of Gate C.



Although we ended up opting for the cheapest tickets available, all of us were pleasantly surprised by the position of our seats. Fenway is a small enough field that you feel pretty close to the action regardless of where you sit. We were particularly lucky to be almost dead centre outfield, and even though we weren't sitting in the covered section, we avoided the pretty constant drizzle throughout the game since we were sitting directly under the jumbotron. Pretty sweet!!



And of course, the best part was the phenomenal game itself. The definite highlight was the record breaking TWELVE-RUN sixth inning!! Yuna commented that she'd never heard of a sympathy cheer such as the one that the Boston fans bestowed upon the Cleveland Indians when they finally got their first out. Needless to say, the Sox won 13-3- we're pretty sure it had to do with how loudly we were cheering...in French no less!



I also had to include this last photo, as it was the result of about 10 straight attempts to take a photo of the three of us. With every one of the first 10 being ruined by someone blinking, we decided to just screw it and take one with all of us blinking...much better!! (p.s. Don't you love how Yuna looks like an anime character when she closes her eyes like that?!)